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John Arnold (1736 – 11 August 1799) was an English watchmaker and inventor. John Arnold was the first to design a watch that was both practical and accurate, and also brought the term "chronometer" into use in its modern sense, meaning a precision timekeeper. His technical advances enabled the quantity production of marine chronometers for ...
Chronometer makers Maker Details Arnold John Arnold (1736–1799) was the leading chronometer maker of his time. He opened his business in The Strand in 1763, and later went into partnership with his son, John Roger Arnold (1769–1843), forming the company Arnold & Son.
Watch by John Arnold used by Belville. The watch used by the business was a 1794 John Arnold pocket chronometer No. 485/786, which Ruth Belville called "Mr. Arnold". [4] It had been made, with a gold case, for the Duke of Sussex, who rejected it because it "looked like a bedpan". [5]
John Roger Arnold (1769–1843), , English clockmaker, London, marine and pocket chronometer. Joseph Geist (c. 1770–1824), Austrian clockmaker, Graz, first Austrian clock producer. Frédéric-Louis Favre-Bulle (1770–1849), Swiss chronometer maker, Le Locle, marine chronometer, tourbillon.
John Harrison (3 April [O.S. 24 March] 1693 – 24 March 1776) was an English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of how to calculate longitude while at sea.
With the death of another major chronometer maker, John Roger Arnold (son of the eminent John Arnold), Charles acquired the Arnold business in 1843, moving his family and business address to 84 Strand, London. [6] Trading as ‘Arnold & Frodsham, Chronometer Makers’ continued till 1858. Charles Frodsham premises at 84 Strand
In the fall of 2020, Arnold closed Greystone and opened Jax in its place. In early 2022, building co-owner Greg Cutchall died. Cutchall used to have Famous Dave’s Legendary Pit Bar-B-Que in the ...
Other notable 18th-century English horologists include John Arnold and Thomas Earnshaw, who devoted their careers to constructing high-quality chronometers and so-called 'deck watches', smaller versions of the chronometer that could be kept in a pocket. [183]